AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

Australian and N.Z. Cable. Association

UN lON DE-REGISTRATION. MELBOURNE, May 23.

D<>ubts regarding the powers of the Arbitration Court to de-register a re* catcitra'nt union under the Arbitration Act were expressed by the Deputy President (Mr. Webb), who adjourned an application to dc-register the Seamen’s Union. It was agreed to state-a case for the judgment of the High Court.

CATERING EMPLOYEES’ STRIKE. PERTH, May 23. Feeling ran-high at Perth \vflen the hotels and tearooms, which could nianige without outside labour, re-opened. O:m large body of strikers demanded to be served, and when they, were re-? fused they commenced fighting, which lasted until the mob was .cleared by the police. ' ' /*, / A shipment of liquor from theqEastern States was unloaded .by lumpers, -but ordereil to be kept in-, the sheds till the strike is over, the'carters refusing to handle it.

SCHOONER WRECKED. MELBOURNE, May 22.

Wreckage is washing ashore along the coast. It is believed to~belorig to the schooner Liabeeta, which is thirtyfive dav s out on a voyage- from Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia, to Melbourne. The voyage usually takes eight days. Captain H- W. Taylor was in command of her, agdj-here was a crew of either three or four, buFthe name of only one, James Bell, is known. ... . .... MELBOURNE. May 23. The Federal Cabinet decided to send a destroyer to search for the schooner Lialetta. The Air Board is sending a" aeroplane to search the coast. Two olhe>- members of the crew are Gordon Smith and -John ’Blackley-, bdtll of Launceston. ’ ... ...